Distant Quotes

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People feel that decisions about their jobs, the way their children are educated, how their church functions, and products they buy are made by someone… — Robert Teeter
The sight of a paunchy playboy groping a scantily-dressed Diana must appal and humiliate Prince William... As the mother of two young sons she ought… — Lynda Lee-Potter
Human beings may hate a distant enemy in theory, but they generally prefer to kill their neighbors. — Ralph Peters
It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves… — C.S. Lewis
Throughout the ages there have always been those who have been willing to go beyond the norms and reach for that unknown and distant star. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as… — Paul Davies
The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan… — Lakhdar Brahimi
Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant. — Confucius
Hold on to the ancient Way to master the present, and to learn the distant beginning. — Laozi
Mistrust is the fuel for so much mental pain, so many mental disorders. I am not talking here about the suspicions we sometimes have of… — Lauren Slater
The fundamental problem in the evangelical world today is that God rests too inconsequentially upon the church. His truth is too distant, His grace is… — David F. Wells
The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of… — Yoshida Kenko
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a… — Isak Dinesen
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies. — Rickie Lee Jones
Discovery is exciting, no matter how big or small or close or distant.... — Mike Brown
Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off. — John Thorn
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or… — Peter Singer
The Bible is the light of my understanding, the joy of my heart, the fullness of my hope, the clarified of my affections, the mirror… — William Jones
We are wistful about the golden days of the past and dream of a distant future unclouded by necessity. But I suspect that if our… — Robert Grudin

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